Black feminist rhetoric

This Black Feminist Rhetoric dissertation couples Sharon Crowley’s Toward a Civil Discourse and black feminist autoethnography as methods for critically narrating my personal experiences and reflections of black womanhood, particularly, in academia. My analysis is grounded in ideological criticism and autoethnography, as methods for studying black feminist rhetorical methodology. For the subject of my rhetorical analysis, I employ artifacts such as Brittney Cooper’s Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women (2017) and Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower (2018), Roxanne Gay and Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom’s Luminary podcast Hear to Slay, and Beyoncé’s recent Netflix documentary Homecoming. Thus, black feminist rhetoric can employ pop culture artifacts, as a method of ideological critique, in academic spaces, for inventing rhetorical arguments that challenge historically oppressive systems and institutions of power.